Where were you when the Challenger exploded?

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Doggiedog

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Aug 17, 2000
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I was in a junior in HS I think. Somebody ran through the hallway yelling the Challenger blew up. We all, including the teacher, huddled around a radio and heard it. The principal let out school early. I ran home and just kept seeing those loops of the shuttle blowing up on ABC. It was terrible.
 
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SupaDupaCheez

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Nov 21, 2000
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I was a sophomore in highschool at the time. I had skipped school and was just wasting time watching the launch. It was absolutely crazy when it happened. I had never seen anything like it before and it just floored me.

On a side note: I also saw Reagan get shot when I skipped school. Is there a connection???
 
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Sundog

Lifer
Nov 20, 2000
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Beaver Creek ski run in Colorado putting on our ski boots. They were projecting the the launch onto a huge wall. One of the only times I have ever seen my father cry.
 
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RU482

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Apr 9, 2000
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playgound.

no reason why, but I headed back to the steps to the building.
just as I got there, this girl came out of the building screaming "the Challenger just exploded"
and we were all herded to the "movie" room and watched the coverage.

defining moment, loss of innocence, what ever you call it. It happened
 
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montanafan

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Nov 7, 1999
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In the shower. It was a snow day. One of my students called and asked me if I was watching it. I was for the rest of the day. :(
 
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Armitage

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Feb 23, 2001
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Between classes in H.S. My physics teacher told me. He had made it to some stage of that teacher in space thing, but not very far.
 
jadinolf

jadinolf

Lifer
Oct 12, 1999
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My wife and I were walking into a coffee house near my business. Everyone was glued to the TV.

I asked, "What happened?"

The rest is history.
 
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Thegonagle

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Jun 8, 2000
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I was in my 5th grade classroom. Another student came back into the classroom after running something to the main office, and shared with the teacher and the class what she just heard had happened down in the office. The teacher sent another student over to the library who wheeled a TV back to the classroom, and we all got to watch the explosion over and over. A little while later, the principal came on the PA, announced the news that all seven astronauts had perished, and called for a moment of silence.

I'll never forget. The Challenger question is the closest thing my generation has to the ?where were you when Kennedy was assassinated?? question. News of such magnitude tends to etch itself permanently into such young minds.
 
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MikeMike

Lifer
Feb 6, 2000
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i wasnt alive then, buti have done enough research, and a project back in like 6th grade on it.

so sad.

and its like the Challenger is remembered, but the Discovery is hardly ever acknowledged as much.
 
Slew Foot

Slew Foot

Lifer
Sep 22, 2005
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Mr. Lauwasser's 2nd grade social studies class, Dunwood Elementary School, Fox Point Wisconsin. Actually we were just coming in from recess when we heard.
 
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gocubs2k5

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I was in Kindergarten. We were sitting in the hallway eating popcorn and listening to a record of the bears sing the super bowl shuffle, since they won the superbowl like 2 days before. 20 freaking years...and the bears havent done anything since
 
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rhatsaruck

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I was working 18 hour days then and didn't have access to a radio, TV, or newspaper. (This happened a few years before the World Wide Web.) I found out about it around 9 am the following day; someone in an elevator told me about it. I was speechless.
 
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